Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

Freedom always comes with a price.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door.